Te curious case of DST

[Robert Nichols]

On 11/20/2012 07:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:04:13PM -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> On 11/20/2012 11:17:35 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>> Do the machines dual boot Winblows? Winblows keeps the hardware clock
>>> in local time (rather than UTC like Linux). This can cause problems
>>> with timezones and DST.
>>
>> Yes it is dual-booted with Windoze. However, I have Linux running on
>> local time for that reason.
>>
>
> This might help:
>
>    <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2009-April/072953.html>

There are some things in Windows XP that don't work right if that registry
key is set.  No, I don't recall exactly what, but I tried it briefly and
found that this particular cure was far worse than the disease.

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